Exactly... I do get the headaches and sometimes worse (almost migraine)... At my office, Ive been fortunate to be able to have almost all the fluorescents off, and they let us bring in incandescents (many of us suffer from the same thing).

Snip: Also new research has come to light that indicates that CFLs emit a high humming sound that is not in our range of hearing but is in the range of hearing of cats and dogs. Can you image hearing a high pitched humming sound all day long. It would be enough to drive you nuts! Many pet owners report that their cats or dogs do not want to be in rooms with CFL bulbs on and will become anxious if they are forced to be.

Oh, that’s interesting, I hadn’t heard the pet thing. No wonder the cats don’t hang around in the kitchen when we have that light on. The AZ Room has a lot of natural light so we rarely need to turn it on there.

I’ve had two CFLs explode on me. One in our bedroom overhead light. After that, I will never allow one in the bedrooms or kitchen. I took a long time cleaning the bedspread and carpeting, because of fears of the mercury residue. Had another one explode in the family room. The only place I will now use them is in the garage or outdoors.

Traditionally healers, such as Barbara Ann Brennan, have long advised to never do healing work under fluorescence lighting of any kind to avoid making yourself ill. These lights drain our energy

No idea what a "healer" is, or who BAB is, or how these lights "drain energy," but a family member got into TM once (I heard a lot of this language in that time) and it drained nearly all her life savings in short order. There's a lot of other material there I might question.

One thing I will NOT question is the likelihood of ultrasonic emissions. I don't know the preferred switching frequencies of these lamps but it seems likely, given the technologies involved, that they are above the range of human hearing (generally above 20 kHz) but not hugely so. Yes, this would make them annoying or worse to many cats and dogs.

Probably also to the undesirable rodents that some rodent-repellent electronics intend to repel. (I am not exactly a believer in these, but once installed our house in the woods has not had a rodent problem though my wife's car, parked outside with plant-based wiring insulation, has had major problems with rodents.)

If our CFLs help keep rodents out of our rural house, This Is A Good Thing!

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posted on 12/23/2010 6:22:05 PM PST
by sionnsar
(IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Why are TSA exempt from their own searches?)

No wonder the cats dont hang around in the kitchen when we have that light on.

My cats used to sit on the computer desk when I was online and then I installed a CFL bulb in the lamp behind the monitor. The cats quit sitting on the desk. The CFL bulb took forever to brighten, so I removed it and installed one of the old regular bulbs back in the lamp. The cats are once again sitting on the desk.

You can get incandescent light bulbs rated for 25,000 hours that are used by the hospitality industry. If you use them for an average of 7 hours a day theyll burn out in just a little under 10 years and cost about a buck or less per bulb depending on how many you buy.

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